 The Dutch speak 3.6 languages on average
I read this in a (Dutch) magazine, a few months back.
The Dutch speak the highest number of languages on average.
Although I wasn't one of them, I always saw myself as someone who is more a beta person than an alpha person.
My mother tongue is Dutch, but lived in the US and learned the English language there (after suffering 8 years in the Netherlands and not feeling confident).
Later on studied in Brazil, and learned to speak Portuguese there. Now I am studying Japanese at the University. But I guess I will learn it quickly once I move to Japan to live the language.
Next to that I studied French, German and Spanish, but never mastered any of those languages.
So... 3.6 languages is really my number now (the 0.6 for Japanese)
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